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A two month summer season<\/h2>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s been an interesting and challenging year. We\u00a0closed in mid-March<\/a> and then were fortunate to reopen for July and August,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n The Cortes Museum is\u00a0normally open Tuesdays to Sundays for four months during the \u2018Summer\u2019 season<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cWe would normally open by at least mid June and until mid September. This year \u2026 even though the directive is coming from the government in British Columbia, that we as a museum could potentially open in early June, it just seem like it was the right timing for us. It took a lot of preparation to open with a very solid safety plan and all the protocols in place,\u201d said Newman.<\/p>\n Consequently, visitations were down about 50 per cent and donations about 75 per cent.<\/p>\n \u201cWe didn\u2019t have [the] donations, we didn\u2019t have\u00a0 our fund raising events, we didn\u2019t even have membership renewals because there was no AGM,\u201d said Newman.<\/p>\n The Cortes Museum. All photos courtesy Cortes Island Museum and Archives.<\/p><\/div>\n Luckily, the museum receives funding from the\u00a0BC Arts Council<\/a>,\u00a0BC Gaming<\/a>,\u00a0Department of Heritage<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Canada Summer jobs.<\/a>\u00a0 They provided the funding that the museum normally obtains through its normal fundraising efforts.<\/p>\n Those government agencies have not made any commitment to continue supporting the museum in 2021.<\/p>\n Newman added, \u201cWe feel that the funding that came through as emergency relief funding may have to carry us through 2021 as well. So we\u2019re being very frugal and looking very conservatively at how we might offer programming.\u201d<\/p>\n The Cortes Island Museum and Archives (CIMAS) is currently open Friday and Saturday afternoons, as is normal during the Fall, Winter and Spring seasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Roy L Hales Managing Director Jane Newman\u00a0explains how the\u00a0Cortes Museum weathered the pandemic, financially.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":12259,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57],"tags":[1754,314,1753],"radio":[252],"origine":[280,266,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12254"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12254"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=12254"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=12254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/DSC03560-1024x683.jpg\")
<\/a>Government agencies stepped up<\/h2>\n
2021 commitment<\/h2>\n